Six year-single term for president temporarily set back – Ugochinyere

A member of the House of Representatives from Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, on Friday described the rejection of the single-year term of six years for President and governor as a “temporary set back.”

Ugochinyere said the bill be represented in the next legislative session.

On Thursday, the House of Representative had rejected the bill seeking to reduce the tenure of the president and governors to a single tenure of six years.

The bill, sponsored by Ugochinyere and others was debated before the lawmakers rejected it.

The bill sought to amend the 1999 constitution to reduce the tenure of the lawmakers, President, and governors.

However, featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today, Ugochinyere said: “After excusing all the legislative timeline, it will be represented at the floor of the next legislative session.

“Secondly, we have compiled the submission and by tomorrow or Monday, we will be submitting it to the constitutional amendment committee.

“Hope is still alive and it’s a temporary set back, the struggle to have six years single term rotation of power between the North and South is till on.

“In parliamentary business there must be yes and no about it, this is not the first time the six years single term proposal is coming up; and like I said before, more consultation would be carried out and will be represented for members to see reasons from our own angle.”